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Twixt France and Spain by E. Ernest Bilbrough
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Gaube--At the Cérizey Cascade--The Pont d'Espagne and Lac de
Gaube--Pont de Benqués--Lutour valley--Various excursions up same--The
"Parc"--Allées de Cambasque--The Peguère--The "Pagoda" villa--
Promenade du Mamelon Vert--The road's up again--Blows and blasts--The
bishop's arrival--Enthusiasm, pomposity, and benedictions--The pilgrims
at large--They start on an excursion--The market and Hôtel de
Ville--The grocer's opinion--Pyrenean dogs and their treatment--The
dog-fancier--Smiles and temper--Bargaining displaced--No dog after all!


CHAPTER VI.

LUZ AND BARÈGES.

Rain at starting--A blighted view, yet lovely still--Pont
d'Enfer--Nature's voice--Sère and Esquiez--Luz--Its situation and
status--An old house--The ancient church of the Templars--La Chapelle
de St. Roch--Pyrenean museum--Hôtel de l'Univers--Château de Ste.
Marie--"The Jackdaw's Causerie"--A new "diet of worms"--The new
bathing establishment--To Barèges--Pic d'Ayré--Esterre--Viella
--Betpouey--Mill conduits--Cercle des Etrangers--Opinion of the
town--Grand Etablissement--Promenade Horizontale--Hospice de Ste.
Eugénie--"The Jay of Barèges"--Wood anemones--Hepaticas--Valley
of Lienz--Pic de Lienz--Pic d'Ayré's summit--Pic de Néouville--Mountain
rhododendrons--_Anemone vernalis_


CHAPTER VII.

ST. SAUVEUR.
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